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Clear is a carbon offset company on a mission - to provide the best carbon offsets available worldwide.
Clear's carbon offsets are the first to be approved by the new UK Government Quality Assurance Scheme, including our free downloadable QAS-approved Carbon Audit Tool for businesses.
News, Blogs & Opinion
8 Apr 09 - Which? magazine quotes Clear
Which?, the UK's most popular consumer magazine, quoted Clear director Bruce Elliott in news coverage of the Quality Assurance Scheme for Carbon Offsetting today. This story was released in advance of an update to the Which? report on carbon offsetting which is due out in July this year.Read more...
26 Feb 09 - "Carbon Offsets are now quality assured"
... announced the government’s ACT ON CO2 website today! Though the UK Government’s quality assurance scheme for carbon offsetting was quietly opened earlier this month, today saw the official launch of the scheme by the Department of Energy and Climate Change with this press release. Here at Clear we are delighted to be the first and only offset provider to have all our offset products approved from the start...Read more...
5 Feb 09 - Carbon offsets now approved by the UK Government
The first carbon offsets to be approved under the new Quality Assurance Scheme for Carbon Offsetting (QAS) were accredited by the UK Government today. All seven products are supplied by Clear, the carbon offset company: Flights, Buildings, Vehicles, Motorbikes, Commuting, Skydiving and a Carbon Audit Tool for Business...Read more...
9 Dec 08 - The Segway i2 proves its environmental credentials
After the previous revelation that the Cheeky Girls are going to save the earth due to Segway PT’s, their head of marketing for Europe called me up at the Clear office, and asked if I’d ever tried one. Rather sheepishly I had to say I hadn’t, so he put me in contact with arguably the keenest owner in the UK. Isidore Margaronis is a great chap who commutes from Notting Hill to Piccadilly every day on his Segway.Read more...
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26 Nov 08 - Boris Johnston’s Cycle Scheme – what’s the carbon impact?
So here in London, Boris Johnson has announced he’s going to create a cycle scheme along the lines of the Velib in Paris. He may look like Worzel Gummidge’s mad cousin, but he’s a very smart cookie. Good on him. Now, if this scheme were to take off, then potentially less buses or tube trains would be needed, and this could have a beneficial impact on the carbon footprint of London. So what might that be?...Read more...
26 Nov 08 - What’s the carbon footprint of a Formula One (F1) car?
Let’s compare an F1 car to a typical car in the UK which produces about 160 g/km, and over a year (10,000 miles) will produce about 2.56 tonnes of CO2. According to Wikipedia a typical F1 burns 75 litres of fuel per 100km raced. Based on figures for petrol (which is a reasonable proxy of race fuel), 0.75 litres of fuel burnt per km equates to a CO2 output of 1737 g/km...Read more...
22 Oct 08 - Ban Public Transport. Buy Segways. Save the Earth with the help of the Cheeky Girls.
This world-changing suggestion starts, as all good things should, with the Cheeky Girls. Or more accurately Lembit Opik, the Lim Dem MP who rose into the public consciousness after getting engaged to one of the Romanian lovelies in a publicity stunt. Recently Mr Opik rode a Segway up and down up and down outside the Houses of Parliament, challenging ministers to have him arrested. Why did he want to be...Read more...
7 Oct 08 - Deja vu?
Of course we've been here before. On the eve of the date mooted for the official launch of the UK Government's new Quality Assurance Scheme for Carbon Offsetting (QAS), uncertainty persists on whether it will actually go live tomorrow or not. Gordon Brown put the cat amongst the pigeons last Friday when he reshuffled the cabinet and created the new...Read more...
6 Oct 08 - What produces more CO2? UK speed bumps, or Fiji?
Speed-bump, road hump, speed ramp or sleeping policemen. Let’s face it by any name they are the bane of urban driving (unless of course you make your living selling replacement shock absorbers). They’re a hassle, damage cars and cause urbanites to drive otherwise unnecessary 4×4s...Read more...
23 Sep 08 - How much carbon does my business produce?
Its a question any responsible managing director should currently be asking, and Clear have created a spreadsheet to enable you to measure it. And best of all it’s free. No charges, no catches. Many companies offset carbon footprint measurement, but the quality of results can be extremely variable. As a carbon offsetter, Clear believes that the first step to reducing your carbon footprint is being able to measure it...Read more...
21 Sep 08 - Quality Assurance Scheme for Carbon Offsetting imminent
We said we'd keep you up-to-date with progress towards the long-awaited UK Government Quality Assurance Scheme for Carbon Offsetting. Well, it looks like we're finally getting there. Apparently details have now been finalised and forwarded to Hilary Benn for his approval. I presume the release date will now depend on media planning at 10 Downing Street...Read more...
10 Sep 08 - New skydiving carbon offset product
Clear are launching a new carbon offset product for skydivers everywhere. The impetus for this has been Steve Baker, a customer who asked if we could figure out, then offer a product for skydivers who want to go carbon neutral. So how is this figured out? Well, Steve kindly asked various drop-zones for their fuel usage per drop...Read more...
1 Sep 08 - What's the difference between CO2 and mpg?
Most manufacturersare now obliged to report figures now for CO2 as well as MPG. Its pretty obvious thatthe more fuel you burn for any given distance, the higher the CO2 and the lower the mpg. What most people don’t realise is that there is an exact formula exactly linking the two figures. It’s far more accurate to...Read more...
1 Sep 08 - Top ten cars for the lowest emissions?
So someone asks you what the lowest CO2 of any car on sale on the UK is. Must be the Toyota Prius right? That’s been on sale since 2000 in saloon form and 2004 as a hatchback, long before anyone gave a monkey’s about CO2. Well the most interesting thing is that the Prius was top of the class for just 2 years, and it superseded a car which produced 20% less CO2 than any car on sale today....Read more...
